change class, need to redeploy?

[Hai Lin]

Hi All,
I have deployed one SessionBean, and works fine, now I've changed something in the business method, and run this ejb again, the change I cannot see. After redeploying, then I can view the change I made.
Does it mean, in short, I must do redeployment as long as I changed anything relating to EJB?
Is there any good way to skip the redeployment? Since just for a small test, redeployment takes long time.

Hai

[Hai Lin]

Hi, Guys,
Please suggest me a simple way to do redeployment. Do I need run cleanup command, then do whole redeployment from the begining?

Look forward to your replies!

Hai

[Valentin Crettaz]

Deployment issues are vendor-specific. Some containers will simply let you save the file in which you have your bean class and will somehow discover that the file has change and hot-deploy it. Other containers will require a manual and tedious deployment process upon each change. I strongly urge you to consult your vendor documentation

[Hai Lin]

Valentin,
Thanks a lot. What I'm using now is J2EE 1.3.1 RI based on HFEjb, does that mean I have to delete those jar and redo the deployment from the scratch?


Hai

[Valentin Crettaz]

With the J2EE RI, you definitely have to redeploy every time you make changes because the deployment tool has to rebuild the stubs and other stuff needed in order to make the beans work properly.

[Hai Lin]

Valentin,
Thanks a lot for your reply. It seems that I have to waste times in deploying using RI even I just do a very small test in EJB.
Do you have any better deploytool tool to recommend?

Thanks.

Hai